<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV><DIV>On Sep 12, 2005, at 10:11 AM, Jay Leafey wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Brian T. Brunner wrote:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">> [quote]"microcode device doesn't exist?"[/quote]</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">> Try grepping for 'microcode' in /var/log/messages, try dmesg | grep</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">> microcode, either or both may give you the exact text.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">> chkconfig --list | grep microcode may also give you a hit, if yes,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">> the problem is easy to cure: turn off the service (man chkconfig).</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">My Athlon XP 2600+ system gives me this every boot with no apparent problems.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I've seen this with other non-Intel CPUs too.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I suspect this is NOT what is causing your boot delay.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Just my $.02!</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">--<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Jay Leafey - Memphis, TN</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="mailto:jay.leafey@mindless.com">jay.leafey@mindless.com</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">_______________________________________________</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>The message comes from (on one of my systems) /etc/init.d/microcode_ctl</FONT><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">which is part of the kernel-utils package.</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">I started getting this message when I upgraded to CentOS 4. My installed kernel-utils is version 2.4-13.1.66. Is this meant for version 2.4 kernels and if so, is there a version for 2.6 kernels? I don't see anything listed with "yum list available"</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Tony Schreiner</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Boston College</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>